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Old 27-10-2012, 06:30 AM   #70 (permalink)
kyear2
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Originally Posted by Beleg View Post
gibbs, or any other west indian spinner for that matter, has absolutely no business being anywhere near the ATG team.

and i am not sure if there is much, if anything, between desmond haynes and chris gayle. if anything, the latter's got a broader set of skills.

with that in mind, my team'd be

greenidge
gayle
lara
worrell
viv
sobers
dujon
marshall
ambrose
holding
garner

the teams got the spinning reserves to deal with an anomalous dust-bowl.

and hayden is criminally under-rated here.
Lance Gibbs is also criminally under rated here and Chris Gayle has no place on that team either, Conrad Hunte or Roy Fredricks or even Frank Worrell if one is so inclined. You also left out the greatest West Indian batsman ever in George Headley. Additionally I would also play Walcott as our answer to Gilchrist, and he was a more than capable keeper.

Gordon Greenidge
Conrad Hunte / Frank Worrell *
George Headley *
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Garry Sobers
Clyde Walcott +
Malcolm Marshall
Curtly Ambrose
Michael Holding
Lance Gibbs / Joel Garner (pitch dependent)
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1st XI
Hutton | Hobbs | Bradman | Richards | Tendulkar | Sobers | Gilchrist | Khan | Marshall | Warne | McGrath
2nd XI
Sutcliffe | Gavaskar | Headley | Chappell | Lara | Kallis | Miller | Knott | Ambrose | Lillee | Muralitharan
3rd XI
Greenidge | Morris | Ponting | Pollock | Hammond | Worrell | Ames | Hadlee | Holding | Trueman | O'Reilly
4th XI
Richards | Simpson | Sangakkara | Weekes | Border | Walcott | Botham | Lindwall | Laker | Garner | Barnes
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